Just started a new job and they use ExpressionEngine which is a little weird to pick up as a web developer used to MVC. It seems it needs a lot of addons to make it actually useful as a CMS that clients can actually use, which, in some cases can cost quite a lot per site (take Structure for example, which makes it easier to layout pages and relate them to templates, something which I'd expect from a CMS), so I'm going to recreate any I find useful and release them as open source. Fuck the system.

So I realised my original design didn't take any consideration of larger resolutions but I ended up with a trade off. If you have a large resolution (>1440x900) you get a sneak peak of the next photos! wowow
The smaller photos are updated via a flickr feed. I need to get the damn cronjob working.

So I realised my original design didn't take any consideration of larger resolutions but I ended up with a trade off. If you have a large resolution (>1440x900) you get a sneak peak of the next photos! wowow
The smaller photos are updated via a flickr feed. I need to get the damn cronjob working.

aww shit I forgot to add a plain background behind it. The thing is that IE and Firefox mess up with the colors so I had to do some little hacks to target IE and firefox and give them a different background. I shall fix this

I really like the design, looks very professional. It does not, however, stand out.. I don't know what you can do to fix this - someone else may be able to suggest ideas,

I'm still working on it but I kinda get what you're saying. It needs more little touches and images, etc. They did say they wanted a similar or better website than this: http://qa.com which is terrible so I guess they'll be happy.

I'm still working on it but I kinda get what you're saying. It needs more little touches and images, etc. They did say they wanted a similar or better website than this: http://qa.com which is terrible so I guess they'll be happy.

I enjoy playlist.com's service, despite them not appearing to be very professional, or refined at all. A peek at their API shows they are indeed not very refined.

However, they're one of the only sites, if not the only site I know of that will display full mp3 search results with great accuracy. So I'd like to take advantage of that in an innocent way.

I'm checking out how their site works, and what data is returned when you make a query. In general, song URLs are returned so on your end you can play the music you've been searching for (obviously, right?) and you play that music through an on-site flash player. Okay, cool. Well, that's the part I want to take advantage of.

I'd like to use their services to return generic result data for an API I write myself, since, as far as I know, there's no public API. They never really finished it, or whatever.

Looks like they obfuscate their song URLs though.

Here is a sample of the data returned by the query "cake the distance":

It all looks good until song_url. Fuck. But hey, no worries right? It's all handled on the client so there has to be a way for me to figure out what the real URL is. And that's what I'm working on! Almost done.

Currently I'm working on a simple todo system.
Obviously, it's not too complex.
Although, there is a twist to make it special.

Instead of registering for an account on the website, you login with your credentials from an IRC network I'm on. The IRC network has an API for web services in Python to allow you to login with the accounts. Anyways, it's written in Python with Flask and it's looking really nice as of now.

So it's been a week since I dived into Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and I have to say they are both great tools. They do exactly what I would have wanted without any workarounds, and the fact that the conventions are so that it reads ( almost ) like English only adds to the ease of use.

So it's been a week since I dived into Ruby and Ruby on Rails, and I have to say they are both great tools. They do exactly what I would have wanted without any workarounds, and the fact that the conventions are so that it reads ( almost ) like English only adds to the ease of use.